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VMware pro 17.5.2. Installation Guide on Fedora 40 Kernel 6.9.9
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1- Download VMware Workstation Pro 17.5.2. from Broadcom

a- Create & Verify your new account on https://profile.broadcom.com/web/registration

b- https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productdownloads?subfamily=VMware Workstation Pro

2-Make your downloaded .bundl file excute able from Terminal

chmod x ~/Downloads/VMware-Workstation-Full-17.5.2-23775571.x86_64.bundle

3- Change to root user on terminal

su -

4- Update your System

dnf update

5- Reboot

reboot

6- Install dependencies

dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc make patch wget

7- Execute VMware Installer

/home/<username>/Downloads/VMware-Workstation-Full-17.5.2-23775571.x86_64.bundle

8- Patch asm/timex.h

wget https://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/files/vmware-timex-h.patch

patch /usr/src/kernels/$(uname -r)/arch/x86/include/asm/timex.h vmware-timex-h.patch

9- To Build VMware Modules and Most IMPORTANT step

Try following to build vmnet and vmmon for kernel 6.9:

git clone -b tmp/workstation-17.5.2-k6.9.1 https://github.com/nan0desu/vmware-host-modules.git

cd vmware-host-modules/
tar -cf vmmon.tar vmmon-only
tar -cf vmnet.tar vmnet-only
sudo cp -v vmmon.tar vmnet.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
sudo vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

Best of luck :)

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